“As the parlour clock began to strike twelve, I opened the kitchen door to let the Old Year out. Then I hurried along the passage to the parsonage hall, and on the stroke of twelve, threw wide the front door… — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“It is ever thus. We find the words to speak when all hope of converse is past.” — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely stout stuff as bears repeated wearing. — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“...life's burdens may only be overcome by a summoning of inner resources: by a dependence not upon others, but upon the qualities of spirit… — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“The landscape artist had captured a distant prospect of an ancient hillside, surmounted by cyprus and a few tumbled columns; the mood was one… — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“We cannot expect the men we appoint to govern us, to be better than ourselves.” — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“As the parlour clock began to strike twelve, I opened the kitchen door to let the Old Year out. Then I hurried along the… — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“There is something so INEVITABLE about seven-and-twenty; it is decidedly on the wrong side of the decade for a lady, particularly an unmarried one.” — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“...the long blue shadows of afternoon advanced before me like cheerful ghosts of last summer's growth, dancing past the withered flower borders and the… — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by… — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“I admire your courage. It is rare to find a woman who places her personal happiness above her fears for the future.” — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“Providence, assuredly, is a mysterious mover, and who is Jane to ignore it's direction?” — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“The world, however bleak I have found it in the last few weeks, must nonetheless be formed of goodness, if but a few moments… — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
